Bag-frame section.



PATENTED NOV. 1, 1904.

No. 773,888. I

J. E. ORTNER.

.' BAG FRAME SECTION.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.1, 1904. I

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT QEEicE.

JOHN E. ORTNER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BAG-FRAME SECTFION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,888, dated November 1, 1904.

Application filed February 1, 190$. Serial No. 191,492. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN E. ORTNn ,a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Frame Sections; and I do hereby declare the followingto bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon,

which form a part of this specification.

The present invention has reference to improvements in framesections employed with traveling, chatelaine, and other bags; and the invention has for its principal object to provide a novel and simply-constructed bag-frame section comprising a main body and the downwardly-extending legs or pivot members at the respective ends of said main body, the said body and each pivot member comprising a pair of surface members bent at right angles to each other, or approximately so, and the said pivot members forming with the main body of the frame-section sharp angular corners.

A further object of this invention is to provide a means whereby during the process of constructing the frame-sections the integrallyunited main body and pivot members can be bent at right angles to each other, or approximately so, without causing the metal to pucker and crack or break at the corners and to produce a sharp and neat corner-angle, as will hereinafter appear.

Another principal feature of my invention is to provide a means for positively securing the overlapping ends of the bent portions or lip portions of the main body and the pivot members of the frame-section to one another to thereby produce a positive angular connection between these parts and to prevent the spreading of the same. I

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly specified will be clearly evident from the following description of my invention.

lVith the various objects of my invention in view the same consists in the novel construction of frame-section hereinafter fully set forth; and, furthermore, this invention consists in the various arrangements and combinations of parts, as well as in the details of the construction thereof, all of which will be more fully described in the specification and then finally embodied in the clauses ofv the claim which are appended to and which form an essential part of this specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of a bag-frame comprisinga pair of pivotally connected or hinged bag-frame sections made according to the principles of my present invention. Fig. Qis a front view, and Fig. 3 a rear view, of one of the corner portions of a frame-sectionrepresenting the parts in their bent relation and the overlapping lugs of the lipportions of the main body and the pivot member of the frame-section positively secured together by means of an eyelet. tion taken on line L 4 in Fig. 3 of the drawings looking in the direction of the arrow 00, but illustrating in addition to the said parts a portion of the bag, an inlay, and an arrangement of pins or rivets for securing the said Fig. i is a vertical secparts to the inner portions of the bag-frame section. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a piece of metal bent and cut in the shape desired before it is formed into the form of the complete bag-frame section indicated in Fig. l of the drawings. Fig. 6 1s a face view of one of the angular portions of the frame-section, similar to that represented in Fig. 2 of the drawings, before the insertion of the holding or securing eyelet in the overlapped and perforated holding-lugs; and Fig. 7 is an edge view of a portion of the frame-section before being bent to provide the sharp corner, said view illustrating one arrangement of the lugs connected with the lip portions before my present invention, the same comprising a main body portion 2 and right-angled lip 3 and the end or pivot members 4 and their right-angled lip portions 5.

From an inspection more especially of Fig. 5 of the drawings it will be seen that during the process of producing the angularly-bent framemember or section, as indicated in said figure, the said frame-section is made with a pair of peculiarly-shaped cut-away or open portions 6, which are bounded by angular marginal lines or edges 7 and 8, substantially as illustrated. Extending from said marginal edges 7 and 8, respectively, are certain lugs or members 9 and 10, these lugs or members being preferably of a semicircular configuration and each member or lug 9 and 10 being made with a hole or perforation 11, as clearly indicated. In producing the frame-section 1 the parts or members f are bent at right angles, or approximately so, to the main body 2 at the points 12, as clearly indicated in Fig. 6, whereby the lugs or members 9 and 10 will be made to overlap, and their perforations 11 in the respectiy e lugs or members 9 and 10 will become located directly above each other. An eyelet 13 is then inserted in the registering perforations or holes of the lugs or members 9 and 10, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and @L, the ends of the eyelet being upset in the usual manner, and whereby the lips 3 and 5 and their lugs or members 9 and 10 are securely united, with the edge portions 7 and 8 of the respective lips abutting and forming a closed miter-joint, as will be clearly evident from an inspection of the drawings. The bent and angular part 12, being the integral connection between the main body 2 and the pivot members 1 of the frame-section, is thus sharply bent and provides an angular connection between the parts, whereby a neat, simple, and cheaply-constructed frame-section is the result, as will be clearly evident. That the said lugs or members 9 and 10 may be made to readily overlap, one of said members, as 9, (see Fig. 7 of the drawings,) maybe made to extend outwardly from the face of the lip 3, so as to enable the lug 9 to pass above the lug 10 when the parts of the framesection are bent into shape.

The bag portion is indicated by the reference character 14:, and it is secured against the inner surfaces of the lips 3 andb of the main body 2 and, the pivot members at by means of an inlay 15 and rivets or pins 16, which are passed into and. through suitablydisposed holes or perforations in the parts. At each joint or corner of the frame-section a pin or rivet 17 may be used for the same purpose, the pin or rivet 17 being passed through a hole or perforation in the inlay and in the tubular portion of the eyelet 13, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

From the foregoing description and from an inspection of the drawings it will be seen "masses that I have devised a simple means for providing bag-frame sections with sharp angular corners to produce a neat frame and one in which the puckering and cracking of the metal at the corners in bending the framesection during the process of the manufacture of the same is clearly overcome.

Of course I am aware that some changes may be made in the various means of connecting or securing together the lip portions or lip members of the main body 2 and the pivot members 4 at the corners without departing from the scope of the present invention. Hence 1 do not limit my invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the parts as described in the foregoing specification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A bag-frame section comprising a main body and a pivot member at each end of said main body, said pivot members being bent at an angle to said main body, the said main body and said pivot members being provided with lip portions, perforated and overlapping lugs extending from the said edges of said main body and said pivot members, and an eyelet secured in the perforations of each pair of overlapping lugs, substantially as and for the purposes set forth;

2. A bag-frame section comprising a main body and a pivot member at each end of said main body, said pivot members being bent at an angle to said main body, the said main body and said pivot members being provided with lip portions, perforated and overlapping lugs. extending from the said edges of said main body and said pivot members, and an eyelet secured in the perforations of each pair of overlapping lugs, combined with the body of a bag, an inlay, and a pin or rivet connected with said inlay and extending through the tubular portion of the eyelet and secured in place in the eyelet, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. A bag-frame section comprising a main body, a pivot member integrally connected with each end of said main body and bent at an angle with said main body, a lip portion extending from said main body, a lip portion extending from each pivot member, overlapping members connected with said lip portions, and means for securing said members in their overlapped relation, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. A bag-frame section comprising a main body, a pivot member integrally connected with each end of said main body and bent at an angle with said main body, a lip portion extending from said main body, a lip portion extending from each pivot member, overlapping members connected with said lip portions, said overlapping members being pro- Vided with perforations, and an eyelet secured in the perforation of each pair of overlapping members, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

5. The herein-described bag-frame section comprising, a main body 2 and pivot members 4 integrally connected With said main body, a lip portion 3 on said main body, and a lip portion 5 on each pivot member 4, said lip portions 3 and 5 being separated by an open part, and said lip portions having securinglugs extending into said open parts and adapted to be connected with each other, substan tially as and for the purposes set forth.

6. The herein-described bag-frame section comprising a main body 2 and pivot members 4 integrally connected With said main body, a

lip portion 3 on said main body, and a lip portion 5 on each pivot member 4:, said lip portions 3 and 5 being separated by an open part, and holding-lugs extending from said angular edges, and means for securing said holdinglugs one over the other, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of January, 1904:.

JOHN E. ORTNER.

Witnessesz.

FREDK. (J. FRAENTZEL, GEO. D. RICHARDS. 

